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DRIVEWAY FOR TRAINING HORSES.

No. 820,712. Patented Jump/23, 1885 WITNESSES ad I I ATTORNEYS.

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' DRIVEWAY FOR TRAINING HORSES.

Patented June 23, 1885.

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INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

WITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES F. SHEDD, OF FAIRFIELD, NEBRASKA.

DRIVEWAY FOR TRAINING HORSES.

$PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 320,712, dated June '23, 1885.

Application filed March 27, 1855.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. SHEDD, of Fairfield, in the county of Clay and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and Improved Driveway for Training Horses, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact dcscrip tion.

My invention relates to a circular driveway, and vehicles, whiffletrees, 850, connected therewith,for training wild and vicious horses to the harness and saddle.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan View of my invention. Fig. 2 is ascctional elevation taken on the line 00 w of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional elevation of the elevated track and one of the vehicles placed and secured upon the track. Fig. 4 is asectional elevation taken on the line y y of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a plan view of a portion of the track,showing two vehicles coupled together with the whiffletrees attached. Fig. 6 is an inverted plan view of two vehicles with attached whiffletrees, showing in one vehicle the arms for locking the vehicle to the track in withdrawn position, and showing in the other the arms forced outward to the 'position they assume for holding the vehicle on the track.

The invention will first be describedin con uection with the drawings, and then pointed out in the claims.

A represents a circular driveway, and B B represent vehicles to run upon the driveway, each provided with a double-tree, O,witl1 four singletrees, a a and Z) Z). The two latter are held by the double trees within the driveway A, and the two former are'held by the double.- trees outside of the rails c c of the driveway A. The driveway A is composed of the said rails c 0, held upon the posts D D, so that the rails c 0 will be held a short distance above the ground or floor. The rails 0 may be of wood or sheet metal; but I prefer to make them of cast-iron,cast in sections of convenient length to be placed end to end upon the posts D. The rails c are by preference formed with double flanges. In this instance they are made Z-shaped in cross-sectiou to form upper and lower horizontal flanges with an in- (No model.) I

termediate vertical web. The lower horizon tal flange forms the tread of the rail, and the upper horizontal flange enables the vehicles B to be locked to the rails by the sliding arms d d. (Shown clearly in Figs. 3 and 6.) The central vertical webs of the rails prevent the vehicles from running off from the tracks laterally. v

The vehicles B are by preference constructed of a triangular platform, 6, provided with three axles, f, two at one end and one at the other, on each of which axles a wheel, is journaled.

The sliding arms (1, above mentioned, for locking the vehicles with the upper horizontal flanges of the rails c, are provided at their lower outer ends with anti-friction wheels d, and they are held in keepers (Z and are bent so that their upper ends pass up through the slots d in the platform e, so that they may be conveniently moved outward or inward for locking the vehicle to or unlocking it from the rails of the track.

For operating all of the arms (I simultaneously, thus saving time, I employ the short lever h, pivoted to the platform 0 at i, and the longer lever h, pivoted at t" to the platform 0. The adjacent ends of the levers h h are linked together, and one of the arms (Z is attached to the levers at the links. Another is attached to the opposite end of the lever 71., and the third is attached to the lever h, between the handle portion h thereof and the pivot t, as shown clearly in Fig. 5, so that by moving the lever h to the right or left all three of the arms (I will be simultaneously moved under the upper flange of the rails c, as shown in Fig. 3, or simultaneously moved out from under the said flanges,according to the direction of movement of the lever 71.

Each vehicle B is provided with four plates or hinge-pieces, Z) If, and I employ the long bars or rods B 13*, for connecting the vehicles B together, the ends of the said rods B- being pivoted or hinged to the plates 1), as shown in Fig. 5; and I provide each vehicle with two flanges or uprights, 1%, along its diagonal edges, to which the short leading-ropes R are attached, so that the wild horses between the vehicles B will be held in a partial inclosure formed by the ropes to keep them from rearing upon or leaping over the track.

for Letters Patent for Apparatus for Trainl ing Horses to Harness, (allowed November 17, 1884,) for taking the wild horses to the 7 track and attaching them to the vehicle.

11 represents an underground passage, through which the trained horses that work on the inside of the circle pass in and out of the circle as they go to and from work, and

in the line of the track this underground passage H is covered by the bridge J, so that the horses within and outside of the rails a may pass over the passage H in making the circuit of the driveway.

In use two wild or unbroken horses are run into the harnessing-stalls S, and attached to the leading-ropes'R R and lead along the ropes to the driving-circle, the ropes B being secured to the stall atone end and to vehicle B standing upon the track at the other. As soon as the first pair of horses are run out and their halters attached to the vehicle B ahead of them, asecond vehicle is placed upon the track behind the horses, to which and to the side ropes, B R, the horses are attached. The bars BB are now put in place, uniting the two vehicles. The leading-ropes R are then uncoupled at a point in rear of the horses. The horses are thus placed between two strong elevated trucks, and are securely attached to the side ropes, B, and are held to their places so securely that. they cannot in any manner injure themselves. The horses to be trained being thus attached to the vehicles and held between the circular rails, a well trained horse will be harnessed, and taken through the underground passage H to the inside of the circle, and hitched by the side of the wild horses, and another trained horse will be hitched alongside of the wild horses outside of the circle.

A sufficient number of horses to fill the circular track may be trained at once, and the vehicles are to be all coupled together, and when the horses are started all travel together around the circular track. The well-trained horses will be controlled by signals made by a horse trainer standing upon the central platform, P, built in the center of the circular track, and the wild horses will betrained in this manner until thoroughly broken,when they may be taken out of the track by way of the gate G.

I design in some cases to cover the driveway as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The circular driveway or track A, composed of the flanged rails c, placed upon the posts D, arranged to form a drive between the lines of posts below the level of the rails,

substantially as described.

2. The circular driveway or track A, composed of the circular rails 0, made in sections, and formed with upper and lower horizontal flanges projecting in opposite directions from the upper and lower ends of the web, substantially as' described.

3. The truck B, )rovided with the arms (I,

in combination with the levers h h, linked together and pivoted at i 'i, and having the arms (1 attached to them, substantially as described.

4. The combination, with two or more vehicles, B, of the rods B for coupling the ve .hicles together, substantially as described.

hicles, B, of the side ropes, R R, leading from one vehicle to the other, substantially as de scribed.

8. The combination, with two vehicles, B, adapted to run upon circular track A, of the side ropes, It, uprights or posts B, and the coupling-rods B, substantially as described.

9. The vehicles B, consisting of triangular platforms 6, each provided with three wheels, 9, two at one end and one at the other, substantially as herein shown and described.

10. The combination, with two vehicles, B, having plates B, double-trees O, and singletrees a b, of the rods B and ropes B, substantially as shown and described.

CHARLES F. SHEDD.

Witnesses:

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